Marzo y abril

Parte del log de 2020

I thought this whole thing about a worldwide pandemic would have ended by now but I guess the whole world is stuck at home for at least a few weeks more, so here are some things that I liked reading or watching lately.

En Español

Projects

I am going to try to write here also things that are not very public-facing but still interesting, as a sort of diary. Some things I have done:

  • Made some changes to my webpage
  • Learned some Go
  • Learned some Rust, I am trying to rewrite an old project on Rust (maybe more about that on the next log?)
  • Started at a new job (yay)
  • Rewrote some parts of the FilmAffinity to Letterboxd script (thank you to the two people who made PRs :) )
  • Started using hledger

Videos

TV Shows, movies & documentaries

I have mostly watched films lately, here are the ones I liked the most in no particular order:

  • The Tale (CW: abuse)
  • Brokeback Mountain (CW: violent homophobia)
  • O Auto Da Compadecida
  • But I am a Cheerleader (CW: homophobia)
  • Sorry to Bother You (CW: racism)
  • Mean Girls
  • Creep (CW: it’s scary)

Books

I kind of switched to reading more books and less articles during the lockdown, both as a sort of experiment and because the whole world kind of only talked about COVID-19 and I wanted to read about something else. The main conclusion is that reading fiction is a lot of fun, specially if it’s in Spanish and I don’t have to spend a lot of energy for doing it.

  • War with the Newts (no review, but I loved it)
  • Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy (review, freely available on the authors’ webpages)
  • The Rust Programming Language (well-written; Rust is so comfortable to work with. I also solved all the rustlings)
  • The Signal and the Noise (review I wanted to like it but I really didn’t)

Math & Computer Science

Science & Economics

Politics & society